The pre-trial investigation materials provided to the defense for review.

The Prosecutor General’s office of Ukraine (PGO) has completed a pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on suspicion of the former mayor of Kharkiv, the people’s Deputy of Ukraine faction “Opposition bloc” Mikhail Dobkin in the illegal appropriation of land.

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About this Facebook reported the press Secretary of the Prosecutor General Larisa Sargan. In addition to Dobkin, the suspects in the case are his former Deputy – Director of the Department of urban planning, architecture and land relations, the former head of Department of land relations of Kharkiv city Council and representatives of the service cooperative and the consumer society.

“During a pretrial investigation it is established that the former Kharkiv mayor, Deputy – Director of the Department of urban planning, architecture and land relations of Kharkiv city Council, head of planning and architecture – chief architect of the city of Kharkiv, head of the Department of land relations of Kharkiv city Council, abusing official position, on preliminary arrangement by group of persons, acting in the interests of the founders of the service cooperative and the consumer society, were instrumental in aiding the latter in misappropriation by fraud with the land plots on the territory of the city of Kharkiv”, – said the Gar.

Thus, according to her, representatives of the service cooperative and consumer society with the complicity of the officials of the Kharkiv city Council took possession of the land in the territory of Kharkiv with a total area of over 74 hectares, than caused damage to the territorial community of the city, totaling more than 230 million.

The pre-trial investigation materials provided to the defense for review. Then the indictment against the above-mentioned officials of the Kharkiv city Council, representatives of the service cooperative and the consumer society will be directed to court for consideration in essence.

As reported the UNIAN, the Verkhovna Rada on 13 July 2017 consented to the deprivation of parliamentary immunity, the detention and arrest Dobkin.

The state office of public Prosecutor has seen in the actions Dobkin signs of deliberate arrangement by group of persons for abuse of office and promoting fraud to seize 78 hectares of land in Kharkiv regulatory cost of more than 220 million UAH. Dobkin rejected all accusations and claimed that Kharkiv city Council has not adopted illegal decisions when he was in 2006-2010 he was the mayor of Kharkiv.

July 15 the court ordered the arrest of a Deputy to September 14, with the possibility of bail in the amount of 50 million UAH. Bail Dobkin has made the co-Chairman of the Opposition bloc Borys Kolesnikov, people’s Deputy Vadim Novinsky.

4 Aug Pechersk district court of Kyiv seized property Dobkin.

On 4 September, the panel of judges of Appellate court of Kiev left the custody of the property Dobkin.

March 15, 2018, the Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko said that the case Dobkin and Novinsky will be brought to trial in the first half of 2018.

July 5, Lutsenko announced changes to the previously announced suspicion Dobkin.